The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 22
‘The king of Granada is my father, and I was born in the palace which overlooks the plain of the Vega.
Who acts: king, palace · What happens: be, bear, overlook · To what, where: father, I, palace, plain
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, palace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Granada | case |
| 5 | Granada | Granada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 father | cop |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 born | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 father | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 overlooks | nsubj |
| 18 | overlooks | overlook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 palace | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plain | det |
| 20 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overlooks | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Vega | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Vega | det |
| 23 | Vega | Vega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 plain | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the king of Granada | my father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | I | the palace | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | overlook | present | the palace | the plain of the Vega | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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